The UAW — which represents workers at the Tonawanda GM Propulsion, Hamburg Ford Stamping, and Lockport GM plants — is now officially supporting the tariffs.

Trump argues tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China will ultimately benefit states like Michigan and its dominant auto industry. But foreign leaders are fighting back with retaliatory tariffs.

A union representing thousands of auto workers in Kansas and Missouri is supporting new tariffs placed on China, Mexico, and Canada by the Trump Administration.

President Donald Trump and the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section are fighting over tariff policy – again. Trump railed against a Wednesday editorial in the Journal that said, with some evidence, that auto-heavy Michigan would be hurt by tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that Trump is once again threatening to impose.